"Though she be but little, she is fierce." – A Midsummer Night's Dream

See You Later, This is Not Goodbye

Now THIS is a “Healthy Holly.” In our front yard. And if you don’t get why this is funny, read up on Baltimore’s mayor.

Dear Readers,

If you’ve ever been tubing, attached to the back of a speed boat you will know this feeling. You’re on the ridge of the wake, high up, you have to hold on extra tight. You don’t know whether your tube is going to slide to the left or fall to the right but it’s imminent. It’s like waiting for a balloon to pop or that feeling when you’re about to fall into cold water or rip a wax strip off your arm pit. It’s purgatory. The change is pending. This is where I am right now with my writing. I’m on the brink of a change and it’s time to slide left or fall right.

Thank you for being here, whether once or 104 times. The amount of love and support I’ve received for these pieces in the past two years has been incredible. It has buoyed me through immense anxiety at the start and most recently, through familial weirdness and unexpected life-altering sadness, through the forced patience of IVF. It’s helped me to speak things on the computer keyboard I couldn’t figure out how to say out loud, whether to myself, to anyone, to one of my girls. I’ve tried to be funny, I’ve tried to be emotive, I’ve tried to be helpful. I’ve planned how to help my most-challenged girls, I’ve pondered the arrival of my niece, I’ve spoken to family and I’ve spoken to strangers. I’ve attempted to garner more help for my beloved Baltimore. While writing these, I have both laughed at my own thoughts and cried at my own heart.

My next venture is to take some of this writing and to try to self-publish a book. Would you read it, even if you’ve already read it here? This is me, putting this down on paper, that I will work toward a book. Accountability.

Now, I still have this domain (I just paid to re-up for another year) and I want to actively write new things so I will aim to post at least once per month, always on a Friday. If you have a guest blog you’d like to post, please reach out!

So, thank you for your support. Below are some of my favorites in case you were late to the party or are looking for something to do on your work computer, other than work. Please, as always, comment, share, spread! I love having you readers and as humans in this world.

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4 thoughts on “See You Later, This is Not Goodbye”

Ohhhh I’m going to miss this so much, I look forward to it every Friday first thing in the morning, even before the funnies in the paper! (That’s what we called the comics where I come from))

I strongly believe that you have any number of books in you and I know that when you set a goal, look out, because you are half way to accomplishing it. I’ll try to get by with the once a month, but thank you for the last two years.

Change is life, life is change, set a new goal, expand your range.
Open that door, take that floor, be on the way, doing ever more.
We’ll miss your blog, our own Friday grog, but that’s okay, zig zag zig zog.
Change life, life change, looking forward, to a new range.

Amanda, you are not just a gifted writer but you are also a gift to those of us who are honored and blessed to have you in our lives. You will never run out of words worth writing down in whatever form you choose. I, for one, will buy your book and refer to it often, I’m sure.
Amanda, thank you for making me laugh, cry, reminisce, cringe and feel so proud for my brother and Nancy that they produced you and then gave you wings.
Do you. Be present. Look both ways and never be afraid to cross the street.
I love you and wish you nothing but dreams fulfilled and challenges met.
And so it begins…..